So i am to assume then that the Admins of the BSD Forum
that people feel did not do their job correctly were left behind.
to stay there or delete their forum?

And if so then What is he going to do with that forum?
Did everyone take a vote to leave him or something.

i really never knew anything about the site being spammed
i never noticed any avertisements at all.

i Ran a forum once and its not really that difficult to adjust moderators
and kick people out that were spamming the Forum.

The one and only administrator of BSDForums is called "admin." In effect, he does not exist! The administrator of BSDForums has not logged into the forums for years. Of course it is easy to ban users and clean up spam, but not if there is no one with the power to do it! The only active moderators on BSDForums did not have the ability to delete or ban users! The reason you never saw spam was because those two moderators, J65nko and phoenix, were doing an excellent, excellent job of removing all of the spam posts. However, this was becoming an extremely difficult task so they simply had to stop. No one wants a help forum to become a full time job. This is why we had to move here. BSDForums is on a one way course to being absolutely useless to everybody.

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Originally Posted by heatherval

But this site is too new for anyone to become
a disk solder,Shell Scout,or port guard?

We will not transfer titles from BSDForums. However, DaemonForums has not yet decided what its ranking system will be. Go here and vote for the ranks that you want DaemonForums to use.

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Originally Posted by heatherval

i do not see why he never bothered to do something about the problem
i am not even sure i know who he is.

No one knows who he is really. No one in the world knows why he does nothing about it. Members from BSDForums have done everything they can to attempt to get him to do something about the issue, but nothing (Including phone calls, emails, and faxes) worked.

Hello to you, Heatherval! I remember your posts and helping you back on "that other forum". I think you will find that this forum is of a much higher quality... as stated above, the admins here actually do something.

i must apologize for being so dumb and blind
i had no idea what was really going on in the BSD Forum
till it struck me when i looked again.

No problem. It might actually be best if we create a sticky thread in the Announcements sections that explains why people are moving from BSDForums to DaemonForums. That will help prevent other confused threads like this one.

It might actually be best if we create a sticky thread in the Announcements sections that explains why people are moving from BSDForums to DaemonForums.

Making a message "sticky" at BSDForums only ensures that it remains high in the list of messages sorted by date. It does not ensure that it is always the first message displayed on the forum's homepage. Note there are already several "sticky" messages explaining why BSDForums has been abandoned.

The spammers have already figured this out too, as they are now posting to the Suggestings, Feedback, Comments section as well.

To make sure that a message title is viewable from the forum's homepage would require intervention by the Admin which simply adds to the list of reasons why BSDForums was abandoned in the first place.